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After a killer program in our beloved Victoria, which saw Aphids shock and awe with Howl at the Festival of Live Art (see link to the video at the end of the newsletter), we are presenting works in no less than three European countries this year. Willoh S. Weiland presented a new work at the Schwindelfrei Festival in Germany and is currently developing a new work for the ANTI Contemporary Arts Festival in Finland. It is a special pleasure to announce the return of Underground, created by our General Manager Rosemary Joy and former Artistic Director David Young. That's what we mean by an artist led organisation!

In other fun news about projects getting new life, several video works commissioned by the Forever Now project from artists Deborah Kelly and Christian J Heinrich, Zoe Mars, Alice Mathieu, Madé Spencer-Castle, Dale Kaminski, Mikhail Karikis, Dara Gill and Vandana Jain were screened at the Powerhouse Museum as part of Vivid Ideas. 

Artefact, ANTI Festival, Finland

A new work created by Willoh S. Weiland as a commission by the ANTI Contemporary Art Festival as part of the ANTI Festival International Prize for Live Art she received in late 2015.

Artefact is a free sunset concert in the heart of the Technopolis, Kuopio. 

It is a funeral for technology that has fallen into obsolescence. The mysterious phenomenon of brand disappearance. A tribute to the immortal consumer icons we have internationally adored and the intimate and fickle ways we worship them. 

At this interdisciplinary event, with performance, sound and documentary, we will farewell the products that have formed us. It will take place in a mysterious no-one’s land on the city's outer edge, where a new permanent public object will be unveiled. An object designed for the future by those from the past, to commemorate our current obsessions. 

This inter-generational work will be created with the community of Kuopio, featuring some of its best loved choirs, death metal singers and a living timeline from senior citizens to wild children. The city is invited to celebrate the relationships they have with their own magical artefacts. In the lead up to the festival, Willoh will undertake a HIAP (Helsinki International Arts Programme) residency to develop the work. 

Conceived and Directed by Willoh S.Weiland
Performance created by Willoh S.Weiland and J R Brennan
Music direction and composition by J R Brennan
Artefact by Susan Cohn and Willoh S.Weiland

28 October
ANTI Festival of Contemporary Arts
Kuopio, Finland

Artefact is a co-production by ANTI - Contemporary Art Festival and Aphids Events. The project is supported by the Saastamoinen Foundation and the Australian Government through the Australia Council for the Arts, its arts funding and advisory body. 

Photo: Bryony Jackson

Spooky Action at a Distance, Germany 

 

In June, Aphids presented Spooky Action at a Distance at the Schwindelfrei Festival in Mannheim, Germany. Inspired by the female NASA employees who were trained but never allowed to fly the Apollo missions, Spooky Action at a Distance uses as a starting point moments in history that could have been vastly different if only we had allowed them to be true. If women had gone to the moon, if Hilary Clinton really did sleep with Yoko Ono, what would the future look like?

This live artwork was experienced by the audience as one part of ten different performances which took place across the city. 

Video and performance: Willoh S.Weiland
Music and performance: J R Brennan

2-5 June
Scwindelfrei Festival 
Mannheim, Germany

Image: Paul Ducco

Underground, Netherlands


"An intimate miracle" RealTime

Aphids project Underground will be performed in July by percussion ensemble Slagwerk den Haag at the Wonderfeel Festival in the Netherlands. First performed in 2007 in a disused clay mine in west Victoria by Eugene Ughetti and Matthias Schack-Arnott, Underground has perviously toured to Japan, Mexico, Belgium, the Netherlands and Sydney.

Underground combines the intimacy of a small concert, with the beauty and intrigue of Rosemary Joy's percussive sculptures and music by composer David Young. 

Artist: Rosemary Joy
Composer: David Young
Percussionists: Slagwerk den Haag
Curved wood construction: Adam Stewart

23-24 July
Wonderfeel Festival
's-Graveland, the Netherlands

Photo: Yatzek
Howl, video from the Festival of Live Art

For all of you who have been missing us, HERE is the documentation from our major 2016 Victorian project Howl at the Festival of Live Art, Arts House. 
 
Aphids is supported by the Victorian Government through Creative Victoria, by the Australian Government through the Australia Council for the Arts, its arts funding and advisory body and by the City of Melbourne through its 2015-17 Arts and Culture Triennial Program. Aphids gratefully acknowledges the following supporters and partners:
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